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Everyday Wellness

UMMC Everyday Wellness, a program for UMMC employees, promotes awareness and education, provides motivation for positive behavior changes, and influences campus practices and policy to support a healthy environment.

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Target areas

  • Physical Well-being Physical Well-being is the act of caring for your body to stay healthy now and in the future.

  • Psychological Well-being Psychological Well-being means appreciating the feelings of others, managing your emotions in a constructive way, and feeling positive and enthusiastic about your life.

  • Social Well-being Social Well-being means maintaining healthy relationships, enjoying being with others, developing friendships and intimate relations, caring about others, and letting others care about you.

  • Professional Well-being Professional Well-being is achieved by participating in work that provides personal satisfaction and life enrichment that is consistent with your values, goals, and lifestyle.

  • Financial Well-being Financial Well-being means managing your resources to live within your means, making informed financial decisions and investments, setting realistic goals, and preparing for short-term and long-term needs or emergencies.

  • Spiritual Well-being Spiritual Well-being consists of finding purpose, value, and meaning in your life with or without organized religion and participating in activities that are consistent with your beliefs and values.

  • Environmental Well-being Environmental Well-being is achieved by understanding how your social, natural, and built environments affect your health and well-being.


Within each of these target areas are methods/approaches that will be utilized to meet the goals of each area, including:

  • Information
  • Motivation
  • Environment
  • Assessment